January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... that there have been three historical impediments: the demands of the space environment and space operations; a small industrial base for space robotic systems; and a space industry that requires extensive heritage before making investments in new...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
... the mechanics governing how a high-speed rover will traverse the lunar surface. Traction performance test of Space Robotics Lab Tohoku University rover wheels using lunar regolith simulant. Together with odometric measurements, i.e., data on the...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
... for labour requires an exponentially increasing workforce, but that workforce isn’t human – it’s robotic. Icarus Robotics’ design stands on the shoulders of space robots of the past, namely Astrobee, CIMON and INT ball. Left: ESA astronaut Alexander...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... involved adapting a ‘predictive maintenance’ algorithm from a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) and integrating it into a space robotic system. University expertise and facilities were then utilised to prove the concept for an enhanced human...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... fostered an even more favourable climate across Canada for Canadian involvement. Canada’s contribution would be a suite of space robots for Space Station assembly and maintenance. The MSS would include Canadarm2, the Mobile Base, and Dextre, a two...
October 2016
Project MOONWALK
... demand robust technical solutions that go beyond what is needed for average terrestrial applications. For space robotics these are, in addition to reliable mechatronics, a high level of decisional autonomy and in the case of the MOONWALK rover, ...
